Colorful Quakers
Hold onto your broadbrim hat! After 58 years of black and white, COLOR is on the way to Friends Journal starting in AUGUST 2013. To announce it, FJ’s first Vine video: This was what we were working on...
View ArticleMy panel discussion on Quaker leadership at @esrquaker
“Minding the Message” was the second speakers panel at the Quaker leadership conference hosted by Earlham School of Religion this weekend. Four of us were asked to talk about our work in marketing our...
View ArticleOvernight camping at Fort Delaware on the Delaware River’s Pea Patch Island.
Earlier this month we took a family trip to the “Three Forts” along the lower Delaware—Fort DuPont on the Delaware side, Fort Mott in New Jersey, and Fort Delaware right in the middle (okay, it’s...
View ArticleCamp Acagisca
A two-night scouts camping trip with two of my kids to the county facilities at Camp Acagisca nears Mays Landing turned into a one night with one kid affair (my 11yo got way too mouthy when it came...
View Article“My secretary just walked in wearing pants…. and she looks terrific!” and...
My mother’s death notice is in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer. Here’s another installation of mom stories, originally written for a longer obituary than the one running in today’s paper. A single...
View ArticleStrawberries and animals at Tuckahoe NJ’s Bready Farms
Our second year picking strawberries here. A fun time was had by all.
View ArticleBring people to Christ / Leave them there
It’s one of those quotes we frequently hear: that George Fox said a minister’s job was “to bring people to Christ, and to leave them there.” But when I go to Google, I only find secondhand references,...
View ArticleMust Facebook own everything?
This is just so depressing: the Facebook gorilla has bought its second mobile photo sharing app in recent weeks. Lightbox was a great app. It auto-posted to everything I cared about (Twitter, Facebook,...
View ArticleThe secret decoder ring for Red and Blue states
Something that fascinates me is the surprising glimpses of Quaker influence in the wider world. Back in the Spring I drew out the possibility of a Quaker connection in President Barack Obama’s...
View ArticleTrying out iOS 7
It’s probably not a good idea to be use bleeding-edge betas. That’s especially true for a tool used daily, like a cellphone. But I’ll freely admit that Apple’s iOS 7, announced Monday, has been itching...
View ArticleColorful Quakers
Hold onto your broadbrim hat! After 58 years of black and white, COLOR is on the way to Friends Journal starting in AUGUST 2013. To announce it, FJ’s first Vine video: This was what we were working on...
View ArticleShouting with Anger and Love for America’s True Greatness
The horrific events of 9/11 would make any country tremble. But with the right leadership we could have shown the world our steady resolve and courage and we could have celebrated an American love and...
View ArticleBlunt assertions, no evidence, no investigation
The Washington Post has an article about the Bush White House’s common practice of making unattributed statements about Iraq without getting CIA feedback. Some of the whoppers include: Sept 26: Iraq...
View ArticleDiMeo Blueberry Farms & Nursery
The DiMeo family owns and operates several of the largest blueberry farms in the world, right here in the “blueberry capital of the world”: Hammonton, New Jersey. They have an existing website that is...
View ArticleReddit: Quakerism without Jesus
Two much-discussed threads on /reddit/Quakers, the first pondering Quakerism with Jesus, and the second—a response—arguing for Jesus’s centrality. Both original posts are perhaps a bit predictable but...
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